Is it Diner or is it...Cafe'...

The nice thing about Restaurants is that you don't see evolutionary design or food preparation like you do see in Technology...

 

Technology Evolves, Restaurants progress because in Restaurant the atmosphere is based upon familiarity...

 

You typically try a new restaurant because there is a familiar charm about the look or the name of the place, but you stay because of the food...

 

sidenote: Yes, you'll tend to stay at a place for the food or atmosphere it brings regardless of the service...

 

We have always been involved with Restaurants throughout our life due to the financial aspect they brought to us, but of late we are more into their purpose...

 

It's hard to be good at something if you don't sit down and try it once in awhile, so just because you designed it, doesn't make you an expert on the subject...

 

The Diner is now being called a "Café" because the word Diner brings about a biased familiarity with people that interpret that name as, Mel's Diner or more direct, "The Greasy Spoon"...

 

However, the look of the Café hasn't changed any, it still has a counter where you can walk up to and sit and you have tables and booths that surround the Counter...

 

The progression of the Café is in the Patio they have built onto the diner and the food, the look is more modern, but still retains a bit of the nostalgic familiarity with the counter, but has now included a full bar to look at instead of the cooks in the Kitchen...

 

It's very important to retain some nostalgic ambience to not scare away the locals that have come accustomed to a certain look and feel their neighborhoods should adhere to...

 

However, things are changing and at an accelerated rate due to the lack of resources we have available to us that War's and Oil have destroyed over the recent years...

 

Designing pipelines along rivers and streams and continuing to use a poorly designed rail system to transport that oil on has devastated peoples way of life...

 

The necessity for change has been a fabricated tale that companies like Big Pharma massively pump into our media that GMO is the future of food, and at the rate we are going, they may be right...

 

GMO (Genetically Modified Organism)...you know it used to be that you could trust your local grocer, but now we are being told to trust some no name scientist...

 

People have changed the way they buy their food because they want to know where it comes from and thanks to that change local farming has seen an uptick in sales...

 

However, companies like Monsanto and Bayer will capitalize on that way of thinking and start using your own words against you...

 

They'll understand the concept of buying local and trusting the person selling you that they too will start to use that in their campaign to fool you...

 

...and when they do, it'll be then that you'll see Evolution in Restaurant and how we are fed and it'll be then when you'll finally see an END of life as you knew it...

 

For now though, we have found a new Restaurant in Seattle next to the homeless encampments and the Meth Vans that run rampant through the city, but believe it or not, we found a little glimmer of hope that all is not lost...

 

The restaurant is called, The Egg and Us Café in Ballard that is absolutely what a Diner used to be and a Café it has become that removes the greasy spoon and serves only Culinary...

 

If you can't stomach driving through Seattle due to the vile stench we don't blame you, so go to Issaquah where it's a cleaner environment ;-)

 

Bon Appétit...

 

**UPDATE**

 

It's progressed faster than we thought...

 

They have now turned the Café into a Double entendre where they have a place where you eat the food to a place where you can pet the food...

 

They Call it the, "Animal Café" the Vegan Approach to rebranding the old Diner :-D

 

Now some would call that Evolutionary, but it's not and they should be careful what they wish for...

 

We're sure by now you've been to a Seafood Restaurant where you pick your lobster out of the case, all an Animal Café does is provide more variety, and they call that progression...and that's a fact!

Here's an Idea...

Here's another idea for you Fitbit...

 

We recently thought about people that are bedridden and don't have the use of their limbs due to paralysis, MS w/ever and the people that watch over them...

 

In the hospital they hook up heart monitors to patients that are then hooked up to a response system that alerts medical staff if the heart stops...

 

This untethers the hospital staff from the patient to allow them to perform their hospital duties and care of others all the while knowing that at a seconds notice they will be alerted in case of an emergency...

 

This equipment is obviously expensive and not every home care provider can afford the luxury of such a device, but if it was designed in a wearable, like a Fitbit, well that's affordable...

 

Some people are on their last days of life, but things still have to be done, like grocery shopping, refilling prescriptions, so you can't be around the individual/loved one all the time and you can't always rely on someone stepping in for you either, so what do you do...

 

With a Fitbit monitoring system wearable you just sync the heart rate up with your Fitbit device so you can monitor them wherever you are...

 

It would also have to have a pinger type technology in it to make sure that you just didn't lose connection with the device, this way you don't respond to a false positive...

 

The device could also be hooked up to a 911 response system, so if the caregiver is not close enough a medical team could be alerted instead...

 

The problem with that is what if the door is locked when they show up, how do they get in the house? bust down the door...

 

Well we are now equipping homes with Smart Locks and in the case of an emergency the Fitbit device would send out a text that would allow a one time unlock code for the door so emergency teams could enter the house...

 

The text code would be like what you get in an email to help you get into your account and the code would only be for that entry and would always be different for each emergency to maintain security for the homeowner...

 

On a fun side of the technology we thought it would be cool if you could sync up your heart rates of your lovers...

 

This way you could "Feel" the heart beat through your wearable of the heart beat of your partners and would always be connected to them...

 

If the heart rate goes faster you could say things like, I was thinking about you just then and you would say, ahhhh, I love you too honey...

 

Either way to us it seems like a necessary technology especially in the respect to patient/caregiver response time alerts...

Just thinking out loud...

Awhile ago we were getting fed up with Microsoft dragging their feet with their mobility and was thinking about jumping ship when we saw the new S7...

We are now off contract and LOVE IT, but would have gotten on a contract again just to afford the outrageous price of 7xx.xx dollars for their phone, knowing damn well the price would come down eventually, but didn't care...

However, we came back to our senses knowing that it was all too good to be true, and come to find out it was...

You know what's nice about being able to see things others can't, even though most of the time we don't know why we are seeing it, is that we know what's gonna work and what's not...

Take Wells Fargo for example, and believe us, there's many, but long ago when everybody was joining Wells Fargo saying that they were the bees knees, we told them we didn't see that to be true...

We of course were mocked because for some reason people just thought Wells Fargo was the coolest thing since sliced bread, and today you can see that it's a good thing we didn't jump on the bandwagon...

We remember telling some "friends" of ours about what would get people interested in computers was a big E on a screen that you took your hand and slapped it on a screen and the internet appeared and viola, a tablet was born...

Windows 10 is turning out to be the operating system we kept boasting about long before it came out and after waiting this long to just jump ship to a nice phone with a sub par OS and virus infected apps
only to have it blow up in our pocket would have really pissed us off...

Then recently we were talking about the disconnect that tech companies have with one another and that Microsoft was making baby steps towards bridging that gap, then Microsoft came out and announced that they had joined the Linux Team...

Now talks of a Surface phone are starting to..."Surface" again ;-) and hope is restored that maybe our wait for a better phone could become a reality...

For now though we'll continue to use our cracked screen 4 year old Microsoft phone with a battery that lasts about 20 minutes if used will have to do...

You know we may not have the "IN" phone, and we may not be in the "IN" crowd because of it, but that's only because we're comfortable just being ourselves...

So Microsoft take your time and do it right, because we aren't jumping ship just to be in the "IN" crowd and Intel, don't be afraid to reach out for help because we're not sure how much longer our phone is going to work, but hey, no pressure ;-)...

It's All over but the Crying...

"THE BEST MAN WON"

"Dow closes at record high"

 

Trump has re-opened the venue to the public. You remember, By the People, for the People...

 

Hillary would have never done that, because she is part of the establishment, a politician, and a crooked one at that...

 

Only Obama and Trump have opened the doors to everyone and anyone that have the perseverance to become a President...

 

Obama was the first black President and Trump was the first Citizen that became President of this Great Nation and that says a lot...

 

Did the best person win...Yes, in this election he did, because his only opponent was a Clinton...

 

The Clinton's are the type of people that host a pot luck party and refuse to give you back your dish...

 

The Clinton's are the type of people that phrases like, hide the silverware and your daughters get coined from...

 

The Women wanted a Woman to be president regardless of the checkered past the Clinton's bring to the table...

 

There's an old saying, "where there is smoke there is fire" and the Clinton's have inhaled so much of their own fumes that they've developed a hack...

 

The Millennials wanted to be a part of History of bringing in a Woman for president as well and regardless of her past...

sidenote: They also have an inability to lose due to the Participation Award Syndrome...

 

The problem is you bet on the wrong horse and lost, but the problem isn't as simple as blaming one person, you need to blame the people that "ACTUALLY" elected him...

 

America votes in members in its Congressional delegation, one for each member in the House of Representatives, plus two for your Senators...

 

The Voting you did was just a popularity vote, and you won, but as you can see your vote doesn't matter in the election of a President in this Nation...

 

You voted in the people to vote for you in this election and those people turned on you, and now they are using your leverage to take away from them and steer you towards Trump...

 

Misdirection has got you again, and you fell for it, hook line and sinker and by demonizing Trump just makes you look stupid on National Television...

 

Now we have some "A Listers" saying they are going to move away from America because Trump got elected :-D GO AHEAD, all you'll be doing is opening up opportunity for somebody new...

 

There's another old saying, "Put your hand in a bucket of water, pull it out, now look for the hole"...

 

Well sure, you might take a little water out with your hand when you pull it out, and these are your followers, but eventually you'll reach your hand out from across the water just to ask for another handout as soon as the money runs out from wherever you are...

 

America is the land of Opportunity, and we have people coming here in droves, so the "A" listers will be replaced before the eyes finish a blink...

 

Look, we have never liked Trump, ever since he took over for his Father, the real hero in this story, and yes we think Trump is a MORON, but he has something only a few people have and that's vision...

 

Trump has a gift of encompassing people around him that are very smart and the proof is in the pudding for this example, because those very smart people got him elected in an election that was Pro Hillary all the way...

 

sidenote: It might be worth mentioning that a "Woman" was the genius behind him getting elected, and it wasn't Clinton :-D

 

The Bush's and Obama have completely destroyed this nation, and Hillary was going to continue where they left off...

 

Hillary would be fighting accusations of her checkered past for the entire 4 years of her pathetic attempt at restoring dignity, strength and honor to our nation...

 

Attempts would be made, but with a Republican House and Senate, nothing would get done, and then you would re-elect her on her false promises to get it done in the next 4 years, but would only be more of the same...

 

Look, America has been overshadowed by phrases like, Made in China or Hecho en Mexico for too long...

 

We need to fix America, and in order to do that she needs to be re-branded, Made in America, and what better person to do that than a Branding Magnate named Donald J. Trump...

 

You people lost sight of the Goal by thinking this was about electing a woman for president, this election was about making America Great Again...and that's a fact!

5hVnz Song of the Month...

Speaking on Music we have a daily double for you...

 

Johnny Cash - Hurt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywSzjRq0e4

 

"Hurt" is a song written by Trent Reznor first released on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0bZtf5MCzY

 

If we had to describe in a Word what Johnny Cash did for this song it would be...Purity...

A Message to Beyonce...

First of all we'd like to applaud your courage you took to take the stage at the CMA awards to introduce your inaugural rendition of your song, that took guts...

 

You have not been very well received that is for sure and unfortunately it seems to be status quo for you girl, but that's because you push the limits...

 

What a lot of people don't know is that Johnny Cash used to be considered Rock and Roll in his day which turned out to be what is known now as Rockabilly...

 

Johnny Cash played with stars like Elvis the Pelvis Presley and the Great Jerry Lee Lewis which helped promote the two styles of genres...

 

As for us, we have been around country all our life and know quite a little bit about it and have seen all kinds of artists try to break in and break out of country in one way or another to bring collections together, people together just trying something new, to bring out a new sound, and there is nothing wrong with that...

 

Being in Computers and Electronics our whole life we have seen a HUGE disconnect between people and would love to see the likes of what you and others have done to try and bring people together more...

 

They're trying, Microsoft is now incorporating Linux into their software and Microsoft has finally made Office a part of the Apple lineup, which is a BIG step for them...

 

What we do think though is that with a lot of things people come in with their grand ideas and culture and don't take into account the struggles that other cultures have gone through to get to the point they are at...

 

It's like you have to listen to what they have to say first before you start injecting your ideas without any forethought of their pain and joy they have experienced with the life they have put into words and music for others to hear...

...have respect...

 

Take your song for example, it's a great song, we really liked it, but it lacked a true country feeling to it...

Beyoncé - Daddy Lessons Ft The Dixie Chicks (Official Audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-O8lo6FQA

 

Your song had more of a New Orleans Jazz with a Banjo feel with a hint of harmonica and big band style in a way, mixed with pop...

sidenote: Speaking of which, Hey Country, where's the fiddle, there has got to be a fiddle in the band...

 

The thing of it is, Country doesn't really need help, it's more popular than ever right now because a lot of the music out there lacks substance and any real quality and really lacks any originality...
 

Country and Rap have a lot in common because they both get to the root of the pain that makes them speak out, sing out to be heard and hopefully listened to with understanding and hope that things can change that they do get their truck back, or the house doesn't get foreclosed on, or today nobody got shot...

 

We do think that you owe the CMA gratitude for debuting your song for you and we do think that people shouldn't be so critical of you as much as they should be with the CMA for taking their loyal listeners for granted...

 

You do have to remember though Beyoncé that Country stands for something and is always going to be sung a certain way, just like any genre of music, but what people have to understand is that some things get boring and we need to change it up a bit in order to find a new sound...and that's a fact!

Scanguard Review...

A new software is out called Scanguard that boasts a suite of products to help keep your system malware free, performance booster, firewall, file cleaner, browser maintenance, file maintenance, parental control...

We're pretty sure that it does your dishes, laundry, takes the pet outside, cleans the bathroom and picks the kids up from school as well...

...but seriously, programs like these are gimmicks at best and have been tried time and time again...

Symancrap also went this route with their software and coincidentally enough was the beginning of their downfall...

Programs like Scanguard lose sight of the objective which is Security...

Pretty soon they'll want to put in a disk defragmenter program, driver update, windows update link or some half assed encryption program...

Programs like this feed off the lazy that want a one button do it all solution center, but what ends up happening is that they get in the way because it's not fast enough...

It's not enough that it has a one button clean up, it also has to do everything within 5 seconds or less, otherwise it just gets in the way of browsing because in order to clean properly you need to have your browser and programs closed...

The other downside to programs like this is that most systems are set to go into sleep mode after a few minutes, so even if the user was diligent enough to set time aside the program would stop because the system went into a power savings mode and the process would stop...

If they had a feature built in that would disable all power management features when it started and re-enabled power management when it finished would be cool, like Cleanup Mode...

The thing of it is programs like this are bloatware and eventually slow down your system more than it helps your system and in the end just causes corruption...

The best solution for what's out there already would be a service management center where you associate your programs with that keeps a date and time of when you last used these programs...

You would still use your proven software solutions, all the management center does is provide a warning that it's time to clean/scan and a link inside the program that opens each program for you one at a time and in an order that they should be ran...

The program would not run as a service and would not run at startup, this way your keep your system running as fast as it can without some service slowing it down...

Don't buy into crapware programs like Scanguard that use a pop-up on a web page to get you interested in it, that's the first sign of a bad program...

There are much better products on the market and much better malware solutions as well that are proven...

You have to take security very seriously and to do that you need to let a program run their course and maybe after two years in the market you can take another look at them to see how they are doing, otherwise stay with the proven methods that have been protecting you and your family for years...